QuickLook Filter

A QuickLook filter that will extract the embedded QuarkXpress preview file
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  • License:
  • Freeware
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Quark Inc
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://labs.quark.com/projects.aspx
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X 10.5 or later
  • File Size:
  • 277 KB

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QuickLook Filter Description

A QuickLook filter that will extract the embedded QuarkXpress preview file QuickLook is the file previewing technology built into Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). It allows you to view files right in the Finder without actually opening them, and it even provides large previews for the neat cover flow feature that the Finder inherited from iTunes in Leopard.For native application files like QuarkXPress projects to be shown in QuickLook, you will have to install a QuickLook filter that can render the file or extract previews from it.Creating a QuickLook filter that dynamically renders the native object model inside a QuarkXPress project would be a bigger project than we're capable of tacking at the moment, so we took a simpler approach for the meantime. First we increased the size of our embedded previews in QuarkXPress 7.31 (the same preview we've always saved into QuarkXPress files-the one controlled by the Include Preview checkbox in Quark's Save As dialog). Then my colleague Luis wrote this QuickLook filter that will extract the embedded preview.This approach has some limitations, such as:? The previews are resolution-dependent and will look somewhat pixilated at large magnification? Only the first spread of a project is previewed? When viewing projects saved by versions of QuarkXPress before 7.31, it will extract the old smaller preview and will definitely look funky when scaled big, such as in full screen modeStill... the previews saved by 7.31 look pretty good in cover flow mode and I think you'll agree this filter is a big step forward for browsing QuarkXPress files in the Finder.Requirements:? QuarkXpress 7 or later


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